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Greatest courses never built
wsmorrison:
We may never know, but Raynor's course at Cypress Point would likely have been very interesting.
Jeff_Mingay:
Very interesting question, Tom.
How about potential modern classics, too, that were never built?
Years ago, Rod Whitman laid out a new course for the province of Alberta at Kananaskis... nearby the Robert Trent Jones courses there. Whit says that course could have been very good.
How about Coore and Crenshaw's Dos Pueblos Golf Links, coastal California, that was shot down? Has any one seen that property? Apparently it's atop high cliffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean.
Sean_Tully:
Wauhilla Aviation Country Club
Planned and construction started in the spring of 1930, have not found anymore info on the course as I am focusing on the earlier years of California golf.
Was to be designed by William P. Bell (Sr.) in Marin County near Olema(West side). Wauhilla had a very novel idea in that they had plans for the members to fly into the course from numerous airports in the western states. From San Francisco it would have been a 20 minute flight.
The times must have been pretty damn good just prior to the depression as the scope for the Wauhilla project shows just how big the ideas were at the time. It seems that with Sandhills in 1995 we saw the second coming of a golf course that would be accessed primarily by air.
Tully
Gerry B:
the proposed 2nd 18 at fishers island - allegedly Raynor had routed a second 18 that was never built do to his premature death
george bahto can confirm / elaborate
Steve_Lovett:
The Dos Pueblos site is magnificent - would've been remarkable. Immediately adjacent to the north is the Santa Barbara Ranch property - a Nicklaus routing, and perhaps even more magnificent property. Both high on the cliffs overlooking the Pacific.
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